Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide

Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide

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MEMORIAE DOMITILLAE sestertius

Carpentum type; completeness, surfaces, and tooling matter.

Domitilla the Elder · Observed / Range

Source location: Book 5, Chapter 8, PDF p. 37, Pricing Schedule

Certified / slabbed evidence

A certified EF example sold by Stack's Bowers in 2020 realized $900. Certified examples remain scarce; grade helps narrow comparison, but surfaces and restoration still dominate value.

Current fixed-price retail

Thin. Active asks vary sharply with patina, tooling, and completeness.

Raw auction

Evidence pending. Do not infer a price ladder.

Published schedule observations (not raw-auction tiers)

Entry: ~$350-$700; Typical: —; Choice: ~$1,800-$3,000+

Market / specialist note

Unlabelled raw observations are displayed as published wording, not assigned to invented auction tiers.

What affects this price?

Even within one ruler, denomination and type, grade, strike, centering, surfaces, style, patina, rarity, provenance, and tooling or smoothing can materially change value. These are not automatic numeric adjustments.